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it seemed to nietzsche -- tunisia was finding a way to compromise. will today's assassination derails the emerging democracy? >> this is the most difficult process of the change, and the new political system has been put together. the new constitution, the divisions between where the country is going, the maneuvering, but generally things are heading in the right direction. >> even so, this will put fear into the heart of the political lives. tonight they called elections. it is a reminder that even the most hopeful of arab democracies remains a work in progress. >> i spoke to michelle. she is the director of the council at the middle east center. we have one of the country's best his the most -- countries that is the most westernized is the most stable. it is a surprise? >> assassination has not been a feature of the transitions. it has not been in libya. -- it has been in libya, but in tunisia, there has been other kinds of violence, specifically by extremists, and there was a lot of tension between secular forces, including the opposition party le
it seemed to nietzsche -- tunisia was finding a way to compromise. will today's assassination derails the emerging democracy? >> this is the most difficult process of the change, and the new political system has been put together. the new constitution, the divisions between where the country is going, the maneuvering, but generally things are heading in the right direction. >> even so, this will put fear into the heart of the political lives. tonight they called elections. it is a...
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the rise in new government and egypt, tunisia, yemen and libya, provide openings for opportunistic individuals and groups. these and other regions of the world, extremists can take advantage of the minister counter-terrorism capabilities, most especially a high proportion of unemployed young males. weapons of mass destruction development is another major threat to u.s. interests. north korea has the michaud capabilities that threatened hasunited states -- demonstrated capabilities that threaten the united states. we believe north korea has taken steps towards fielding a system although remains untested. they used a launch vehicle to put a satellite into ordered -- into orbit/ these developments have been accompanied with a crest of public rhetoric was the united states. iran continues to develop technical expertise in areas including nuclear reactors and ballistic missiles from which it can draw nuclear weapons. these advancements strengthen our assessment that tehran has a scientific and industrial capacity to produce nuclear weapons. this makes the issue its political will to do so. such a d
the rise in new government and egypt, tunisia, yemen and libya, provide openings for opportunistic individuals and groups. these and other regions of the world, extremists can take advantage of the minister counter-terrorism capabilities, most especially a high proportion of unemployed young males. weapons of mass destruction development is another major threat to u.s. interests. north korea has the michaud capabilities that threatened hasunited states -- demonstrated capabilities that threaten...
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you have problems in mali, egypt libya, tunisia, all across north africa and -- >> rose: you do indeed. so therefore the idea of taking out in yemen an american citizen who had threatened america was just fine with dick cheney? >> yes. >> rose: by a drone attack. >> yes. he was clearly part of -- >> rose: should there will be checks and balances in terms of that? should there be some way -- >> take him to court? >> rose: i'm asking. >> i think when we hire the president of the united states he gets to live in the big house makes all that money, he's getting paid to make difficult, difficult decisions. >> rose: and this president has been prepared to step up and make those decisions? >> some of them he has. in other ways he is limiting the capacity of future presidents to do it. every time you take down our military capabilities, every time you start laying up carriers instead of refueling them, every time you cut the defense budget with a meat ax, which is what he's doing, every time you do that, you're going to limit the capacity of the president ten, 15 years down the road to take ac
you have problems in mali, egypt libya, tunisia, all across north africa and -- >> rose: you do indeed. so therefore the idea of taking out in yemen an american citizen who had threatened america was just fine with dick cheney? >> yes. >> rose: by a drone attack. >> yes. he was clearly part of -- >> rose: should there will be checks and balances in terms of that? should there be some way -- >> take him to court? >> rose: i'm asking. >> i think...
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see the spillover from libya and ongoing into algeria, mali, elsewhere in north africa, i'm sure in tunisia, maybe even in egypt. this is a serious problem and maybe the secretary even in these final days of her tenure as the secretary of state, she'll be asked about this unrest. the arab spring in north africa and the middle east was supposed to lead to drem kra democracy a there's so much more work to be done and so many more challenges that are very real that could plague the obama administration, indeed, for the next four years. >> how much do you think this is going to be questioned about clearly this hostage incident has been remarkable in its nature. what's happening in mali, northern mali also remarkable in terms of the islamist strong hold in northern mali. how much have these two hearings, i should note she's going to be in front of the senate foreign relations committee at 9:00 eastern and the house foreign affairs committee at 2:00, how much of the hearings will be what we can look forward to in terms of problems? how much will be looking back at benghazi? >> i'd say probably ha
see the spillover from libya and ongoing into algeria, mali, elsewhere in north africa, i'm sure in tunisia, maybe even in egypt. this is a serious problem and maybe the secretary even in these final days of her tenure as the secretary of state, she'll be asked about this unrest. the arab spring in north africa and the middle east was supposed to lead to drem kra democracy a there's so much more work to be done and so many more challenges that are very real that could plague the obama...
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calling the president of tunisia when all the action was in libya. but you can't deny requests for more security in benghazi and then blame the very people who asked for it. you can't have it both ways. and you want us to believe that you and the president are going to get the facts and get justice? you can't even get to the fbi to the crime scene for three weeks. and by the way, the fbi guys, they carry guns, don't they? if it takes them three weeks because it wasn't safe in benghazi, how the hell is it safe enough for you to keep our civilian diplomats there? and what to do? find some guys with impeccable reputations, beholden to your husband bill and ambassador named pickering, an admiral named mullen, have them investigate and make sure they don't ask you any questions. or talk to the guy in charge of the emergency response and pickering, he's perfect. he apparentlyelieves america is already full of islam foebs. while you're at it, hillary, why not throw the president of libya under the bus, too. the man who traveled to benghazi at great personal
calling the president of tunisia when all the action was in libya. but you can't deny requests for more security in benghazi and then blame the very people who asked for it. you can't have it both ways. and you want us to believe that you and the president are going to get the facts and get justice? you can't even get to the fbi to the crime scene for three weeks. and by the way, the fbi guys, they carry guns, don't they? if it takes them three weeks because it wasn't safe in benghazi, how the...
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rosie manji explains why the assassination of the opposition leader holds such dire consequences for tunisia . the importance of. shukri belayed. cannot be underestimated is assassination is a is a profound. effect on the tunis in population he has been an outspoken standing spokesperson for justice in tunis here here has been fear minutely critical of the government only who he party. and in particular he has enormous credibility within the trade union movement as you can see there's a general strike in corridor immediately upon his his assassination i think but we're inching or a new phase in the revolution in in in tunis here and you know good lead aleutians you never know what the outcome is is going to be and i think there are. signs that this could easily. disintegrate into some kind of civil civil war or now hopefully that won't happen. president obama's choice to become the next chief of the cia went through a tough confirmation hearing at the u.s. senate. but it wasn't the lawmakers who put john brennan under the spotlight over his role the controversial u.s. drone program session w
rosie manji explains why the assassination of the opposition leader holds such dire consequences for tunisia . the importance of. shukri belayed. cannot be underestimated is assassination is a is a profound. effect on the tunis in population he has been an outspoken standing spokesperson for justice in tunis here here has been fear minutely critical of the government only who he party. and in particular he has enormous credibility within the trade union movement as you can see there's a general...
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everyone is now very anxious to say that north africa, mali, algeria, tunisia, libya, egypt, all of this is the new front for al qaeda, safe havens, the war on terror. a lot of words being thrown around, ashleigh, but action on the ground, being able to put military force into there and hunt down these north african al qaeda leaders and the cells of al qaeda, that's another thing. a lot of these countries are not anxious for outside force, for outside help, you know, in mali right now the people are very -- want the french there because they're pushing the militants back. but i think what we're seeing is the militants have real capability here to go after some of these facilities and hold them at risk. very tough to go after. >> boy, i'll say. barbara, when i heard this new development that the numbers ranged into the many hundreds. at first we thought, look, any hostage taking can happen, these things happen, but the sophistication to take this many people hostage, i think it's shocking and i think you hit the nail on the head. north africa needs a lot more attention. barbara starr, wou
everyone is now very anxious to say that north africa, mali, algeria, tunisia, libya, egypt, all of this is the new front for al qaeda, safe havens, the war on terror. a lot of words being thrown around, ashleigh, but action on the ground, being able to put military force into there and hunt down these north african al qaeda leaders and the cells of al qaeda, that's another thing. a lot of these countries are not anxious for outside force, for outside help, you know, in mali right now the...
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remember they raised a black flag on the embassy in tunisia. you had -- in fact, one of the reason they didn't send all six special ops they say at the time was they didn't want tripoli unguarded at all. that was the u.s. embassy and considering what is happening to the embassies in the region at the time a thought laets dispatch two guys to ben ghazi for that. >> as we go to break and move past this. it's on the daily beast right now. as we do go to break, chuck, it is important to remind people we are not brushing aside any allegations. the state department has already been hammered and hillary clinton has testified. >> and there is more coming. >> and there should be more coming because the fact is hillary clinton and the state department did not heed the concerns of a u.s. ambassador who ended up dead. that does warrant investigation. >> everybody there wants answers. >> this will be bigger than watergate and iran/contra, i don't know. let's wait and see. >> chuck todd, thank you. see you later this morning on "the daily rundown." tina brow
remember they raised a black flag on the embassy in tunisia. you had -- in fact, one of the reason they didn't send all six special ops they say at the time was they didn't want tripoli unguarded at all. that was the u.s. embassy and considering what is happening to the embassies in the region at the time a thought laets dispatch two guys to ben ghazi for that. >> as we go to break and move past this. it's on the daily beast right now. as we do go to break, chuck, it is important to...
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the rise in new government and egypt, tunisia, yemen and libya, provide openings for opportunistic individuals and groups. these and other regions of the world, extremists can take advantage of the minister counter-terrorism capabilities, most especially a high proportion of unemployed young males. weapons of mass destruction development is another major threat to u.s. interests. north korea has the michaud capabilities that threatened the united states -- has demonstrated capabilities that threaten the united states. we believe north korea has taken steps towards fielding a system although remains untested. they used a launch vehicle to a satellite into orbit. these developments have been accompanied with a crest of public rhetoric was the united states. iran continues to develop technical expertise in areas including nuclear reactors and ballistic missiles from which it can draw nuclear weapons. these advancements strengthen our assessment that tehran has a scientific and industrial capacity to produce nuclear weapons. this makes the issue its political will to do so. such a decision will re
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was not able to interrogate a suspect in the benghazi attacks, and he was briefly held by tunisia. take a listen to this. >> tunisians did not have a basis in their law to hold him. >> so they released him. >> they did. >> where is he? we don't know. >> he's still in tunisia. >> that doesn't sound like a good system of working with our foreign partners. >> it shows the tunisians are working with their rule of law like we do. >> i know mr. rubio wants to sound ready for responsibility and if he's got some very strong testicles, but dismissing the rules and practices of a foreign nation, that's hardly the most mature way to approach international terrorism, is it? >> oh, martin, that's poppycock. come on. we should have been able to force the tunisian government to do exactly what we wanted them to do. >> we're not even in any kind of conflict with the tunisian -- >> i'm kidding, of course. while marco rubio was trying and similarly we saw this in the hearing with hillary clinton, he was trying very hard to show that he is in command of the facts and he is ready to be, you know, pres
was not able to interrogate a suspect in the benghazi attacks, and he was briefly held by tunisia. take a listen to this. >> tunisians did not have a basis in their law to hold him. >> so they released him. >> they did. >> where is he? we don't know. >> he's still in tunisia. >> that doesn't sound like a good system of working with our foreign partners. >> it shows the tunisians are working with their rule of law like we do. >> i know mr. rubio...
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the man released in tunisia, do you think we had anything on him or not? the reasoning i intervened is because i was told this is a leading suspect in attack on the consulate. why did i have to do that? why didn't you call them. when the ambassador was attacked in june of this year and they closed their consulate did you know about it and why did we keep ours open? we are just scratching the service. nothing could be further from the truth about us running out of questions. >> you did have some answers. >> one. >> bret: what was that? >> i asked did you pick up the phone to call a libya official for september 11 in the attack? he said after a two-page letter from the lawyer, no. he called them the next day after they were dead. the rescue team was held up in the benghazi ain't for 3-1/2 hours frying to get to the annex and help these people. i believed that if the president picked up the phone there is no voice in world like that of the president of the united states that could have made a difference. he never called anybody in libya or talked to the secre
the man released in tunisia, do you think we had anything on him or not? the reasoning i intervened is because i was told this is a leading suspect in attack on the consulate. why did i have to do that? why didn't you call them. when the ambassador was attacked in june of this year and they closed their consulate did you know about it and why did we keep ours open? we are just scratching the service. nothing could be further from the truth about us running out of questions. >> you did...
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embassy, there were similar demonstrations around tunisia. there were these sorts of attacks. when news came of an attack in benghazi very little detail, very little information relayed that there were x number of gunmen. >> they got confused that this was going on in the middle east. >> people are shocked that there could be confusion in government. >> when ambassador stevens called out for help, all this played out in washington afterward, the notorious comment by the u.n. ambassador that caused so much controversy. >> our current assessment is that what happened in benghazi was in fact initially a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired hours before in cairo, almost a copy-cat of the demonstrations against our facility in cairo which were prompted of course by the video. what we think then transpired in benghazi is that opportunistic extremist elements came to the consul at as this was -- consulate as this was unfolding and it escalated into a much more violent episode . >> since then it becomes fairly clear that she was not responsible, that's the information she
embassy, there were similar demonstrations around tunisia. there were these sorts of attacks. when news came of an attack in benghazi very little detail, very little information relayed that there were x number of gunmen. >> they got confused that this was going on in the middle east. >> people are shocked that there could be confusion in government. >> when ambassador stevens called out for help, all this played out in washington afterward, the notorious comment by the u.n....
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from american experts these same forces pushing for islamist political governance in egypt, libya, tunisia, throughout the middle east, are going to somehow push for a secular political order to take over in the islamist republic of iran. there is a basic disconnect in terms of how most americans are shown what happens in the middle east and particularly in the islamist republic. >> i should specify. we always say the arab spring. this would be the persian spring but one of the starts to these movements that took hold quickly and seemed to disappear almost as quickly as it appeared. i want to ask about sanctions. when you say the sanctions are meaneringless, there are plenty of exemptions of sanctions in the past that have been very meaningful and actually effectuated change. why do you feel this isn't working when so many say it is quite successful? >> i think the people who say it's quite successful i would wager are not people who have walked around in the streets of tehran over the last six weeks. there's no way you could do that, talk to a range of iranians and think this is going to
from american experts these same forces pushing for islamist political governance in egypt, libya, tunisia, throughout the middle east, are going to somehow push for a secular political order to take over in the islamist republic of iran. there is a basic disconnect in terms of how most americans are shown what happens in the middle east and particularly in the islamist republic. >> i should specify. we always say the arab spring. this would be the persian spring but one of the starts to...
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in tunisia with a tunisian judge present. but a month later the feds released that person. robert mueller arrives in libya to meet with senior officials. it wasn't until last week may 1 the fbi releases photos of three men wanted for questioning saying they believe they were on the ground of the benghazi consulate at the time of the attack. alisyn: let's look at the four americans murdered. first in was sean smith. he joined the state department in 2002. he was in libya on a temporary assignment when he was killed. but he had a throng career serving in benghazi. glenn doherty was part of a reinforcement team that arrived at the annex in benghazi 7 hours after the initial attack began. tyrone woods was a former navy seal working at the consulate in benghazi. here is his father on hannity last night. >> the most important question is why? we need to know why the decision was made so this won't happen in the future again. of course you need to know who so you can ask the why question. but the why question for the benefit of americans. alisyn: ambassador chris stevens is the fi
in tunisia with a tunisian judge present. but a month later the feds released that person. robert mueller arrives in libya to meet with senior officials. it wasn't until last week may 1 the fbi releases photos of three men wanted for questioning saying they believe they were on the ground of the benghazi consulate at the time of the attack. alisyn: let's look at the four americans murdered. first in was sean smith. he joined the state department in 2002. he was in libya on a temporary...
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i've traveled with her on one trip to cairo, tunisia. she never stops. >> look at the miles she's logged. >> let's hope she comes out of this in perfect shape. thank you very much. >>> let's go back to paul begala and ari fleischer. you worked with the secretary of state when she was first lady of the united states. this is not necessarily the best way she wanted to end those four years as secretary of state. >> no, but i think particularly in kate's piece, it's impressive how she has taken responsibility for what went wrong in benghazi. she didn't wait for congress which should and will will look into this as part of congress' duties, and led by mike mullen and that was really tough on a state department, on the government in which she serves. that shows real character. it can't be anybody's standards that nothing goes wrong when you're secretary of state, like she said, 260,00060,000 pleas. obviously we all hope that she feels better soon but i think she's going out having been one of the most accomplished and beloved secretary of stat
i've traveled with her on one trip to cairo, tunisia. she never stops. >> look at the miles she's logged. >> let's hope she comes out of this in perfect shape. thank you very much. >>> let's go back to paul begala and ari fleischer. you worked with the secretary of state when she was first lady of the united states. this is not necessarily the best way she wanted to end those four years as secretary of state. >> no, but i think particularly in kate's piece, it's...
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a day of mourning and protest in tunisia the funeral of a slain opposition leader is marred by violence with protesters clashing with the police this comes against the backdrop of a general strike that's our allies the country. agree on a budget deal after hours of bickering and a showdown between the u.k. and. president obama's nominee to head the cia faces kept calls from anti drone protesters seemingly gets a free pass from lawmakers over his targeted assassinations program. oh. world news live with analysis for you here on our team. and thanks so much for tuning and. we begin with tunisia where clashes between mourners and the police have been marred the funeral of a secular opposition leader who's assassination and could lead to chaos in the streets and a crisis in the parliament violence erupted near the cemetery as demonstrators threw stones and set cars a blaze well police have responded with tear gas now adding to the turmoil the country has been paralyzed by a general strike for days where promotion is following the developments in tunisia as you can see many people have gathe
a day of mourning and protest in tunisia the funeral of a slain opposition leader is marred by violence with protesters clashing with the police this comes against the backdrop of a general strike that's our allies the country. agree on a budget deal after hours of bickering and a showdown between the u.k. and. president obama's nominee to head the cia faces kept calls from anti drone protesters seemingly gets a free pass from lawmakers over his targeted assassinations program. oh. world news...
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and earlier this week the birthplace of the arab spring tunisia witnessed a similar scenes of unrest as anti-government protests were sparked by the assassination of a prominent opposition figure. soon to be cia chief john brennan went through a confirmation hearing amid protests but it's still hard to tell where the architect of the targeted assassination program will take america. down to the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics games a promise to be the most expensive in history with huge overspending already costing a key organizer his job. and taking a look back at the news that shaped the headlines over the last seven days this is the weekly to have you with us. egypt's opposition has called for more rallies and threaten to storm the presidential palace the protesters accuse mohamed morsi of of whole not upholding the goals of the revolution that ousted hosni mubarak two years ago but turmoil has also been fueled by the authorities decision to block the video sharing web site you tube in the country for a month over its anti islamic content but as artie's belcher reports t
and earlier this week the birthplace of the arab spring tunisia witnessed a similar scenes of unrest as anti-government protests were sparked by the assassination of a prominent opposition figure. soon to be cia chief john brennan went through a confirmation hearing amid protests but it's still hard to tell where the architect of the targeted assassination program will take america. down to the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics games a promise to be the most expensive in history with...
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security or withdraw diplomatic staff in advance of a crisis, from central america to khartoum, from tunisia to yemen, from egypt and mali to and eyes. while dod does not have the primary responsibility for the security of u.s. diplomatic facilities around the world, we do work closely with the state department and support them as requested. in the months prior to the benghazi attack, as i said, we had received from the intelligence community, almost 300 reports on upon threats to american facilities around the world. over the course of the day on september 11th, general dempsey and i received a number of reports of possible threats to u.s. facilities. including those in cairo, egypt. but there are no reports of imminent threats to u.s. personnel or facilities in benghazi. by our best estimate, the incident at the temporary mission facility in benghazi began at about 3:42 p.m., eastern daylight time, on september 11th. the embassy in tripoli was notified of the attacks almost immediately, and within 1 -- 17 minutes of the initial report, africom directed an unmanned surveillance aircraft tha
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he is still in tunisia. it shows the two nations are working with the rule of law, just like we do. >> we have someone who is a suspect in the potential attack on benghazi and did not give us access to him, and we don't have any information. >> we work with our partners across the board. when they can detain individuals according to their laws, we were to see if we have the ability to ask some questions, sometimes directly and sometimes indirectly. >> but the tunisian law did not allow them to hold them so they let them go? >> and we did not have anything on him, either. if we did, we would have made the point for them to turn them over to us. the cia should be able to lend its full expertise as it does right now in terms of and support a military interrogations', fbi, and foreign partner of the briefings. they do that on a regular basis. >> what is the best setting? a suspected terrorist is captured and we think we can obtain information from them, where the suggest they be taken? what is the right setting?
he is still in tunisia. it shows the two nations are working with the rule of law, just like we do. >> we have someone who is a suspect in the potential attack on benghazi and did not give us access to him, and we don't have any information. >> we work with our partners across the board. when they can detain individuals according to their laws, we were to see if we have the ability to ask some questions, sometimes directly and sometimes indirectly. >> but the tunisian law did...
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in tunisia, huge crowds of mourners protested as opposition leader chokri belaid was laid to rest. he was assassinated earlier this week. tens of thousands converged on the cemetery, with belaid's coffin draped in a tunisian flag. violence erupted as police fired tear gas and demonstrators threw stones and set cars ablaze. thousands of demonstrators turned out in cairo and other cities across egypt, protesting president mohammed morsi and his islamist-led government. the crowds defied hard-line muslim clerics, who called on their supporters to kill opposition leaders. as night fell, security forces used tear gas to disperse protesters who threw rocks and fire bombs at the presidential palace. gunmen in nigeria have killed at least nine women working to immunize children against the polio virus. the attacks today were in kano, in the african nation's muslim north. the killers were believed to come from boko haram, a radical islamic sect. polio remains endemic in nigeria, but some muslim clerics have charged the vaccinations are a plot to sterilize young girls. the british government
in tunisia, huge crowds of mourners protested as opposition leader chokri belaid was laid to rest. he was assassinated earlier this week. tens of thousands converged on the cemetery, with belaid's coffin draped in a tunisian flag. violence erupted as police fired tear gas and demonstrators threw stones and set cars ablaze. thousands of demonstrators turned out in cairo and other cities across egypt, protesting president mohammed morsi and his islamist-led government. the crowds defied hard-line...
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we said we have embassies throughout in the world and not all, obviously are benghazi or tripoli or tunisia. the reality is that in most countries, in the world, we can rely on the host country to provide security. they're there. they're willing to do it. they do a good job. there are some of these embassies in some of these more volatile countries that are of concern. and those were the nineteen that we're designated by the state department as ones we had to look at more closely and develop a better approach to providing security. because there part of the problem is the host countries are not very good at providing that kind of security. >> is there a -- it seems this is so much of a distance in time challenge that when it happens, how quickly can we respond? how far away are we? is there a almost like a playbook for the ambassadors for the people in those facilities that here's the steps to follow. jump on them immediately if it dpunlt click we go this or that? >> the best playbook the general responded this as well. the best playbook is an ambassador who says, we have got serious securi
we said we have embassies throughout in the world and not all, obviously are benghazi or tripoli or tunisia. the reality is that in most countries, in the world, we can rely on the host country to provide security. they're there. they're willing to do it. they do a good job. there are some of these embassies in some of these more volatile countries that are of concern. and those were the nineteen that we're designated by the state department as ones we had to look at more closely and develop a...
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there were demonstrations here, there, tunisia, cairo, yemen. they wanted to make sure americans were safe. that was the focus. at the end of the meeting according to a senior administration official, mike morell the deputy cia director stands up. he says, i am going to take essentially i'm going to take ownership of the talking points. i hear the state department's concerns. i have concerns. i am going to take control of this. dennis mcdonagh now the white house chief of staff says, thanks, mike. that i'm told was the only discussion of the talking points in that meeting. >> hold on for a minute. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is joining us for a little context right now. i know you are speaking to officials over there. what are you learning? >> reporter: hi, wolf. as jake says, officials here are adamant that these talking points should now disabuse the public of the idea that they were up to any kind of political trickery, that in fact all they were doing was hashing out a normal kind of e-mail discussion about an ongoing,
there were demonstrations here, there, tunisia, cairo, yemen. they wanted to make sure americans were safe. that was the focus. at the end of the meeting according to a senior administration official, mike morell the deputy cia director stands up. he says, i am going to take essentially i'm going to take ownership of the talking points. i hear the state department's concerns. i have concerns. i am going to take control of this. dennis mcdonagh now the white house chief of staff says, thanks,...
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security or withdraw diplomatic staff in the advance of a crisis, from central america, from car whom, to tunisia, from egypt to mali and others. while d.o.d. does not have primary responsibility for the security of u.s. diplomatic facilities around the world, we do work closely with the state department and support them as requested. in the months prior to the benghazi attack, as i've said, we had received from the intelligence community almost 300 reports on possible threats to american facilities around the world. over the course of the day on september 11, general dempsey and i received a number of reports of possible threats to u.s. facilities, including those in cairo, egypt, but there were no reports of imminent threats to u.s. personnel or facilities in benghazi. my -- by our best estimate, the incident at the temporary mission facility in benghazi began at about 3:42 p.m. eastern daylight time on september 11. the embassy in tripoli was notified of the attacks almost immediately, and within 17 minutes of the initial reports, about 3:59 p.m., africom directed an unmanned, unmanned surveil
security or withdraw diplomatic staff in the advance of a crisis, from central america, from car whom, to tunisia, from egypt to mali and others. while d.o.d. does not have primary responsibility for the security of u.s. diplomatic facilities around the world, we do work closely with the state department and support them as requested. in the months prior to the benghazi attack, as i've said, we had received from the intelligence community almost 300 reports on possible threats to american...
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egypt, libya, tunisia, all of north africa, throughout the midwes middle east. it looks like potentially it's turning out to be a nightmare. is it? >> i think it's never been the work of a couple of years. clearly, it's the work of a generation, change in the arab world. countries that don't have a particular model to follow, you know, there is no -- it's not like the end of communism in europe where eastern european countries knew they wanted to be like western european countries. these countries have to find their own model of democracy. >> looking back, was it a mistake to dump mubarak? >> the egyptian people dumped mubarak? but a lot of the european countries said it was time for him to go. >> well, in the face of revolution in egypt. none of these countries, can we decide who is in charge. this is about people taking charge of their own destiny. >> i've heard from other arab countries like the united arab emirates or the saudis, others in the region, the kuwaitis, they were pretty upset that the west moved as quickly in dumping mubarak as it did. >> there i
egypt, libya, tunisia, all of north africa, throughout the midwes middle east. it looks like potentially it's turning out to be a nightmare. is it? >> i think it's never been the work of a couple of years. clearly, it's the work of a generation, change in the arab world. countries that don't have a particular model to follow, you know, there is no -- it's not like the end of communism in europe where eastern european countries knew they wanted to be like western european countries. these...
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the northern part of mali is right adjacent to mauer tape ya, tunisia, all areas that are very important to france and important to the west, and i think -- so what is a relatively unpopulated area of northern mali has some geographical importance. and so somebody's got to control it that is not an absolute safe haven. i think people who were surprised by the algerian response, i wasn't. in my mind the algerians fought a very bitter counterinsurgency of their own, a very bloody counterinsurgency, and the algerians have no interest in showing to potential terrorists that they need western help and that they are willing to be weak. in fact, and i certainly wouldn't say the government of algeria was happy to have hostages die, but i think they sent a very clear message to terrorist groups that they are not going to negotiate, they are not going to play games, that they are capable of doing this. whether that's the perfect approach or not depends upon who you are, but i think the government of algeria wants to make sure people know that algeria is not a place where terrorist incidents are go
the northern part of mali is right adjacent to mauer tape ya, tunisia, all areas that are very important to france and important to the west, and i think -- so what is a relatively unpopulated area of northern mali has some geographical importance. and so somebody's got to control it that is not an absolute safe haven. i think people who were surprised by the algerian response, i wasn't. in my mind the algerians fought a very bitter counterinsurgency of their own, a very bloody...
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the other is the suspect in the benghazi attack held in tunisia. thigh shared information and intelligence on what we had. the united states government try repeatedly to get access and interviewed him for three hours. brennan testified under oath that the united states didn't have anything on him. brennan's chents weren't true. republicans understand they weren't true. they couldn't be true because we passed information to the allied governments in order to help us try to prosecute. so brennan has to reconcile the comments. he has been asked in a letter by rubio to clarify them. he hasn't yet. they will push him to do so. >> bret: is this standoff over hagel increase the chances that more information comes out? or does this get as the president says, blown away by charges that this is politically motivated? and republicans are just looking for things to grab on to? >> i don't think the hague hague standoff makes any difference. >> bret: a lot of it is based on the benghazi -- >> i understand. but i'm saying the standoff over hagel is more related t
the other is the suspect in the benghazi attack held in tunisia. thigh shared information and intelligence on what we had. the united states government try repeatedly to get access and interviewed him for three hours. brennan testified under oath that the united states didn't have anything on him. brennan's chents weren't true. republicans understand they weren't true. they couldn't be true because we passed information to the allied governments in order to help us try to prosecute. so brennan...
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how about leaning on tunisia? >> how about leaning on tunisia? what he said was right, that's the law of tunisia, we cannot go in there and take this guy out when they are following the laws of the country he lives in. i don't know what you expect. you want -- i don't know if we have enough soldiers to take over tunisia? >> no one's saying to take over tunisia. but you can exert diplomatic pressure to turn him over. there are other ways to do that. >> i am sure they have done that. >> be creative. >> panetta's testimony, he pointed out that president obama wasn't in the room when all of this was going on. leon panetta made one phone and he wasn't sure how long it lasted -- >> there are more holes in the benghazi coverup story than in a block of swiss cheese. >> i was hoping for something better. >> i am working on t. the -- on the benghazi piece, we were led to believe that they were on top of it, 5:00 in the afternoon, they are having a meeting, having a meeting with the national security team at 5:00 p.m. and they were on top of it all night lo
how about leaning on tunisia? >> how about leaning on tunisia? what he said was right, that's the law of tunisia, we cannot go in there and take this guy out when they are following the laws of the country he lives in. i don't know what you expect. you want -- i don't know if we have enough soldiers to take over tunisia? >> no one's saying to take over tunisia. but you can exert diplomatic pressure to turn him over. there are other ways to do that. >> i am sure they have done...
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, thinking who would care about tunisia? as we went through them, we noticed there were things there that we took out by ourselves. for example, the names of any chinese dissidents that were going into the embassy in china. not only the names, but the times the meetings took place, knowing the chinese would match those up against cameras they train on the entrances to the embassy and so forth. we were all ready to write, we gave the government six or seven days notice. it was thanksgiving week of 2011 -- 2010. we gave them to them on a monday morning. we were prepared with legal briefs if they were going to try to stop us. we figured there would be 24 hours of getting their heads around the fact that we had all 250,000 documents. it took them a little longer than that and we ended up meeting with them the wednesday night before thanksgiving as everyone was trying to get out of town. we were told it would be a meeting of three or four people. there were about 40 of them in three of us. as we went around and introduced ourselv
, thinking who would care about tunisia? as we went through them, we noticed there were things there that we took out by ourselves. for example, the names of any chinese dissidents that were going into the embassy in china. not only the names, but the times the meetings took place, knowing the chinese would match those up against cameras they train on the entrances to the embassy and so forth. we were all ready to write, we gave the government six or seven days notice. it was thanksgiving week...
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respond in detail to what i perceive as a difficult, the evolving situation in north africa, now with tunisia, with libya, with all these countries, and certainly with mali, and how you plan to direct the agency to deal with this devolving momentum that is taking place in northern africa. so that will be for tuesday, and at the request of senator levin, i ask for unanimous consent to add into the record a joint statement that he and i made on april 27, 2012, and, secondly, in order to have mr. brennan's answers to questions for the record by the time he returns before us in closed session, i ask members provide questions for the record by 5:00 p.m. tomorrow. that is friday, february 8, so we have them for you as soon as possible. i want to thank you and your family for being here and i wish you well. and you and the hearing is adjourned. >> thank you, chairwoman. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> on c-span today, "washington journal" is next live with your phone calls. later, live coverage of the farewell ceremo
respond in detail to what i perceive as a difficult, the evolving situation in north africa, now with tunisia, with libya, with all these countries, and certainly with mali, and how you plan to direct the agency to deal with this devolving momentum that is taking place in northern africa. so that will be for tuesday, and at the request of senator levin, i ask for unanimous consent to add into the record a joint statement that he and i made on april 27, 2012, and, secondly, in order to have mr....
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a popular public figure and critic of tunisia's islamic-led government was according to an eyewitness, shot and killed as he left for work this morning. outraged protesters filled the streets and there were violent clashes with police. tunisia's prime minister condemned the assassination, saying the real target is, in his words, quote, the tunisian revolution as a whole. >>> also in germany, germany's education minister has been stripped of her ph.d in an embarrassing case of plagiarism, if you can even believe it, and she's the second minister in chancellor angela merkel's cabinet to face these allegations. the university awarded the minister the highest honors for her doctoral thesis, which one says has many plagiarized passages. >>> and just days after king richard iii's remains were identified underneath a parking lot in england, a battle is shaping up. which city will get to be his final resting place? lester, where his remains were uncovered, and york are dueling over the rights. a change in fortune for the 15th century king, remembered as a notorious villain, accused of killing
a popular public figure and critic of tunisia's islamic-led government was according to an eyewitness, shot and killed as he left for work this morning. outraged protesters filled the streets and there were violent clashes with police. tunisia's prime minister condemned the assassination, saying the real target is, in his words, quote, the tunisian revolution as a whole. >>> also in germany, germany's education minister has been stripped of her ph.d in an embarrassing case of...
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and attention in tunisia public anger over an opposition leader's killing comes close to boiling point in the government to dissolve and raising fears of the second revolution. you're watching r t why from moscow with me to ban would say it's good to have you company today. russia's black sea resort of sochi is making a yeah until the start of one of the most exciting events will action love is the one telling lympics giant countdown clocks have started taking it into major cities across the country is lindsey france reports from school. several meters high weighing nearly eight tons each now the color scheme on these clocks is blue but as you can imagine since this walk here in moscow is set just outside red square it is red farther to the south zone or is just like this or having it in a much bigger way a president who is meeting with the chief of the international olympic committee along with a seventy's delegation representing countries participating in the olympics in the then his big celebrations down there and saw cheek kicking off today first off with the washer ice palace here
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in tunisia the decision on strong. live from will be egyptian calling on the egyptian government to take action against religious you lose your school lose. giving this. a pulitzer because this is what we saw in tunisia and we see that it can also split egypt and saudi. security forces. and even. extremists and do. a little bit to advance political objectives. and then actually interrupt the literally and i think we have a we have just about one minute left and i sort of want you to if we look at the authorities response to the crisis right i mean for example unlike what's happening in tunisia president morsi what happened with president morsi the tunisian prime minister seemed to be willing to have a unity government if a party doesn't go against them how do you assess his actions in a situation. that was there it was the mood but the problem is that the party. people also did not buy it they think that it's just to cool down and aftermath of the mission because this is not the opposition have been calling for all alo
in tunisia the decision on strong. live from will be egyptian calling on the egyptian government to take action against religious you lose your school lose. giving this. a pulitzer because this is what we saw in tunisia and we see that it can also split egypt and saudi. security forces. and even. extremists and do. a little bit to advance political objectives. and then actually interrupt the literally and i think we have a we have just about one minute left and i sort of want you to if we look...
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and attention that in a tunisia public anger of an opposition leaders killing comes close to boiling point prompting the government to dissolve and raising fears of a second revolution. it's a may day here in moscow you're watching r t live all with me to say russia's black sea resort of sochi is marking a yeah until the start of one of the most exciting events for action love isn't real secret is the winter olympics giant countdown clocks have started taking in a major cities across the country arches lizzie france has the details. farther to the south zamboni says like this or having been a much bigger way a president who didn't choose his meeting with the cheetah by the international olympic committee along with her seventy's her delegation was representing those countries participating in the olympics in the then his big celebrations down there and saw she kicking off today first off with emotion i had palin here and then of course you know gas and it is a big iceberg formants with some of the leading this is ours i love it russian figure skating when i never have it all out for
and attention that in a tunisia public anger of an opposition leaders killing comes close to boiling point prompting the government to dissolve and raising fears of a second revolution. it's a may day here in moscow you're watching r t live all with me to say russia's black sea resort of sochi is marking a yeah until the start of one of the most exciting events for action love isn't real secret is the winter olympics giant countdown clocks have started taking in a major cities across the...